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40 Danbury Dr., Suite 2
Methuen, Massachusetts 01844

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Massachusetts real estate appraiser
Steve Keohane
U. S. Navy (Retired)
Massachusetts Licensed Real Estate Appraiser #2651
 
20+ yrs full time real estate appraiser experience
E&O Insurance of $500k carried
 

- Member, MLS Property Information Network
- Lifetime member of Disabled American Veterans (DAV)
- Past member, Mass Board of Real Estate Appraisers
- Past member, National Association of Home Inspectors
  (NAHI)
 
Contact:
Tel: (978) 258-7954
Email: Lawrence MA appraiser
 

Hours: 7 days
from 8:30 AM - 9:00 PM
(Eastern U.S. Time)

 
I Accept:
  
Checks, Cash, Money Orders or Paypal
 

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Single family - Condo - 2-4 family

Specialize in residential appraising for :
- Pre-Listing or Marketing
- Bankruptcy
- Divorce
- Estate purposes
 
- Mortgage Loan &
  Refinancing
- Equity Loan
- prior to a Short Sale
- REO (foreclosures)
- PMI elimination
see 1998 PMI Removal Law here
 

 
Counties I Cover
 
25% Middlesex - 100% Essex
and only Charlestown and Revere in Suffolk County
 
see close-up map here

Cities/Towns covered & Fees

Fees below are for full single family & condo appraisals. 
2 - 4 family (multi family) fees range from $325 - $375
 

Fees are based on distance.

 
Acton $300 Dracut $275 Melrose $275 Tewksbury $250
Amesbury $250 Everett $275 Methuen $250 Wakefield $275
Andover $250 Georgetown $275 Merrimac $250 Waltham $300
Arlington $300 Gloucester $300 Middleton $275 Watertown $300
Bedford $300 Groveland $250 Newbury $275 Wenham $300
Belmont $300 Hamilton $300 Newburyport $275 Westford $300
Beverly $300 Haverhill $250 N. Andover $250 W. Newbury $250
Billerica $275 Ipswich $300 N. Reading $250 Wilmington $275
Boxford $275 Lawrence $250 Peabody $275 Winchester $275
Burlington $275 Lexington $275 Reading $275 Woburn $275
Cambridge $275 Littleton $275 *Revere $300    
Carlisle $275 Lowell $250 Rowley $300 Groton $300
Chelmsford $275 Lynn $300 Salisbury $250    
*Charlestown $300 Lynnfield $275 Saugus $300    
Concord $300 Malden $275 Somerville $300    
Danvers $275 Medford $275 Stoneham $275    

*Charlestown & Revere are in Suffolk County. 
 

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Area Real Estate & Mortgage News
May 15, 2011: JUMBO LOANS GETTING MORE EXPENSIVE. It will be more expensive for potential home buyers to get a jumbo mortgage this fall, according to real estate experts.

Starting on Oct. 1, the federal government is reducing the size of mortgages it guarantees in high-priced markets such as Greater Boston. The maximum loan amount that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will back in Suffolk, Middlesex, Norfolk and Plymouth counties is scheduled to drop to $465,750 from $729,750. Finish reading this at:  Boston Herald 

 
May 17, 2011: FORECLOSURES UP IN APRIL 2011 OVER MARCH. The Warren Group reported today that lenders initiated 1,192 Bay State foreclosures in April — a 51 percent drop from April 2010, but a 13.7 percent increase from one month earlier.

“Lenders are still taking a cautious approach to foreclosures, and this is keeping foreclosure statistics at low levels for a while longer, (but) this brief downturn should not sway us from the reality that the foreclosure crisis is not over,” said Timothy Warren Jr., CEO of the Boston-based market tracker. “The increase in petitions from March to April shows that foreclosure activity has picked up a bit again, and we are likely to see increases in coming months,” he said in a statement. Finish reading this at:  Boston Herald
 

May 17, 2011: MORTGAGE MASTER SETTLES DISCRIMINATION SUIT. The state’s largest locally owned mortgage company has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle claims that it charged some 200 black borrowers up to $1,000 more in origination fees than white and Latino borrowers paid.

Walpole-based Mortgage Master agreed to a settlement today with state Attorney General Martha Coakley that calls for the firm to spend $95,000 refunding $250 to $1,000 per borrower to those allegedly charged higher-than-normal fees. The company will also pay $155,000 that Coakley’s office plans to make available to local housing groups for consumer education. Finish reading this at:  Boston Herald


Watching Mortgage rates - as they have a large impact on the real estate market:

Interest Rates are presently trending downwards:

On 11 November 2010, 30-year fixed mortgage rates went as low as 4.17 percent, the lowest level on record since April 1951.

More recently: Freddie Mac says the average rate on May 12, 2011 fell to 4.63 - down from 4.71 percent the previous week. It was at 4.78 the week before that. This is still a large decline from the year's high rate of 5.05 percent that 30-year rates had reached on February 10, 2011.

The average rate on the 15-year home loan which is fast becoming popular was at 3.82 percent on May 12th - down from 3.89 percent in the previous week, and from 3.97 the week before that. The 15 year interest rate had reached 3.57 percent on November 11th, the lowest level on records starting in 1991.

To calculate average mortgage rates, Freddie Mac collects rates from lenders across the country on Monday through Wednesday of each week. Rates often fluctuate significantly, even within a single day. The rates do not include add-on fees, known as points. One point is equal to 1 percent of the total loan amount. Bookmark their Weekly Interest Rate Survey (.xls file)

 

 

 

 

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